distressed - Story 32837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She sat on the edge of the bed, the bank statement crumpled in her hand. The soft, familiar scent of his cologne couldn’t soothe the rising panic. He’d always talked about shared dreams, about building a future together. But this… this felt like a betrayal. Her breath hitched. A knot formed in her stomach. She pictured their life, every shared expense, every sacrifice she’d made, and a feeling of profound disillusionment washed over her. She just wanted to disappear.

Emotion: distressed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.39 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion distressed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 distressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the distressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the distressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.304
`😞`	0.296
`worse`	0.291
`😖`	0.285
`😰`	0.276

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.457
`la`	-0.349
`:)`	-0.239
`B`	-0.232
`happy`	-0.229